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Torrentz.eu Domain Name Suspended
First time accepted submitter S37Rigor Mortis (1601271) writes "Torrentz.eu, the largest torrent search engine on the Internet, has had its domain name suspended following a request from the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit in the UK. The site continues to operate under two alternative domains, and is hoping to move the .eu domain to a new registrar." Update: 05/27 12:53 GMT by T : That was quick; the site is back, "after the owners pointed out that its suspension was illegal."
The Fascist Police of London had a .com domain pulled from a Ukrainian website the other day...
I got redirected to torrentz.ch and I can't tell if this is blocked by British ISPs like torrentz.eu was...
So no service problems. Good job internet.
These criminal scum need to be stopped. The City of London Police are abusing their power to enforce civil matters and shut down legitimate search engines. Apparently no-one is watching the watchers.
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...does City of London police have any jurisdiction outside City of London? Registrar should not have caved in.
I should like to point out that I, a registered voter and taxpayer, have never been asked whether I want my taxes spent on something so monumentally stupid as a Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit. And I suspect that its creation was an idea planted, bought, and paid for by You-Know-Who.
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"In the name of the general welfare, to protect the people's security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that:
Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.
Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.
Point Three. All patents and copyrights, pertaining to any devices, inventions, formulas, processes and works of any nature whatsoever, shall be turned over to the nation as a patriotic emergency gift by means of Gift Certificates to be signed voluntarily by the owners of all such patents and copyrights. The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation. No trademarks, brand names or copyrighted titles shall be used. Every formerly patented product shall be known by a new name and sold by all manufacturers under the same name, such name to be selected by the Unification Board. All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.
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"Torrentz.eu, the largest torrent search engine on the Internet, [...]" ...says TorrentFreak, and the websites that copied that claim.
It is a meta-search engine.
According to IsoHunt, Google is the largest torrent search engine.
According to the <title> of BTJunkie, they are ("btjunkie - the largest torrent search engine").
And according to various sources (example), the Away from Keyboard documentary was about "the largest and the most famous torrent website in the world", The Pirate Bay.
So, are there any objective/independent studies into which website(s) really are the largest?
The suspension has been reversed.
Torrentz.eu is back in full swing (1200 hours CET on May 27.) ...
>And I suspect that its creation was an idea planted, bought, and paid for by You-Know-Who
And who would 'You-Know-Who' be, hmmm?
Since when do you think you have a direct say over every aspect of governmental spending, whether local or national? We elect people to have some influence at the top, but this can be limited in practice. Plenty of people feel the same way you do about deploying the military overseas (which I mention as I thkn that would have a stronger moral case), but you don't get to pick and choose. That just isn't how it works. However, you probably should make your MP aware of what is wrong, and Boris too. At least if you live in the UK. It can't be much harder than posting to Slashdot can it?
A quick glance a the PIPCU website makes it sound, to me, like some of the stuff they do is reasonable. And although I know nothing about the torrent website, or this case, if the people behind the website were involved in some kind of non-IP crime and the website was used for money laundering then I wouldn't have a problem with it being closed.
Obviously I didn't read the article. And am just rambling.
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that was certainly worth the expenses *facepalm*
Does it mean they don't go after legal copyright infringement? Or only after those who infringe on illegal copyrights?
I just now went there and it looks up to me.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Granted, this whack-a-mole game with individual torrent sites makes for a fun show sometimes. But I find it embarrassing that the online community has to work around these issues time after time, and that some good people get caught up in legal battles.
Are there any good alternatives to bittorrent for private, anonymous file search and exchange? I heard about several "darknet" projects, but they never seem to gain traction for some reason. Given a huge number of hobbyist hackers who support free exchange of information, I am surprised.
Is there a fundamental reason why we cannot have free, anonymous file exchange? Or is everyone just happy with the status quo?
The Police are well aware of the futility of this gesture; as much as they know it will please their political masters.
Years ago I was in London and watching the changing of the guard.
People were all over the place, in the road and all over that big statue in front of the gate there to get a better point of view.
The mounted police came and ordering people back was this gooooorreous blond cop.
She ordered the people out of the street - several times. Apparently most of us tourists didn't speak English. I had a hard time understanding since I speak American.
She kept yelling at them and saying the guards are "very large men who weigh 2 logs and 3 stones" or whatever they use over there for measures and they will just march over you.
Finally, mostly due to her horse moving towards the curb, they moved back out of the street.
The statue people just wouldn't move. She yelled to show some respect and they still wouldn't move. After several more tries she left in exasperation - while her mounted comrads looked on.
God! I was soooo turned on by her.
So, I'd offer to join the protests but I'm afraid of being labeled as a sex offender and here in the States, well, we're like Saudia Arabia in regards to many things.
Random video auto-plays with sound, nattering about some cellphone bullshit.
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You wouldn't download Detroit!
But now, thanks to the Metropolitan Police, I've been made aware of it. That's the police having the -exact- opposite effect of the one they wanted!
Thanks, Mr Plod.
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Is the City of London Police paid now by ProMusic, Music Matters, FindAnyFilm, TheContentMap, and by BPI, ifpi, and Publisher Association?
I always think the first country to have a private police force would be the USA and not the UK, but here you have it.
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I also noticed the spam/"poisoning" problem with p2p networks. Using BitCoin-like algorithmic approach to solve that is a new idea to me, which I need to think more about to understand it, but it does sound interesting.
Another decentralized system where spam problem was somewhat mitigated is email. For me, SpamAssassin with its bayesian filters was a 90% fine solution, and GMail with its power of scale solved the problem for 99.9% of cases. There may be 1 in 1000 slipped spam or a false positive, but that doesn't bother me much, and it is uncomparable to the spam disaster we had in ca. 2000.
So spam and poisoning is a real problem, but not an unsolvable one.
Another useful idea, probably from the same AC as above:
PGP has incredible potential as a decentralized authentication system, and once you have one of those, you can have consensuses that are highly resistant to interference (i.e. censorship).
There aren't many situations where anonymity is particularly useful
Now this is ironic in an AC post. Also, I don't understand your point about anonymity working against you in preventing the monitoring. Are you talking about "circle of friends" type networks?
now I can search for and download Linux distros.
This is NOT the London Metropolitan Police. This is the Police of the City of London. Two very different animals.
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What about a pseudonymous reputation system?
Let the uploaders voluntarily sign their uploads. Then, as the user verifies a few packages by that uploader, they assign a higher trust score to them, so their personal spam filter ranks this uploader's other packages better.
I can also have friends and trusted vendors whom I can whitelist based on their signatures.
We can also have global distributed "trust rank" for uploaders and individual packages, based on feedback from multiple users. That's not very reliable, but possibly useful as one of spam filter heuristics.
Then, we can also have pseudonymous meta-moderation, where users who consistently flag good and bad packages are trusted more about their future feedback.
The sooner everybody gets off of DNS, the better. Keep your abilities like your money and your internet all under your control.
'The City of London' is not London. The City of London is smaller, older, and legally separate from what you think of as London.
Here is a great explanation in under 5 minutes.
Seriously, you do know that it's just a table lookup for routing, right?
DNS - Directory Name Service.
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congratulations, never before have I seen something make so little sense!
What does "ttc" mean in the context of most results on Torrentz? Does it have anything to do with the famously litigious video game developer The Tetris Company LLC?
sudo su /etc/hosts
echo "68.71.55.18 torrentz.eu" >>
or
echo "68.71.55.18 torrentz.eu" >> Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
sorry, the last one should have been:
echo "68.71.55.18 torrentz.eu" >> c:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
I should like to point out that I, a registered voter and taxpayer, have never been asked whether I want my taxes spent on something so monumentally stupid as a Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit.
I know Great Britain and the rest of the EU aren't quite as protective of free speech as the United States, but I think it's still legal to write your MP and local news organisations.